Costa Rica will have the Surf competition In Jaco Beach Costa Rica!!!

Jaco beach is considered one of the selected places for surfing.

The International Surfing Association (ISA) has announced that the 2016 ISA World Surfing Games will take place in the picturesque beach town of Jacó, Costa Rica from August 6-14, bringing the competition back to the country for the first time since the very successful 2009 edition in nearby Playa Hermosa.

Everybody is welcome to see this amazing competition.

Team Costa Rica, the champion of the 2015 ISA World Surfing Games in Nicaragua, will have the opportunity to defend their title on their local waves, and attempt to win consecutive titles for the first time since Team Australia did it in 2008.

Uniting the top international Surfing talent since 1964, the ISA World Surfing Games is an Olympic-style team competition that features National Surfing Teams consisting of up to four men and two women. With 132 surfers representing 27 countries at the 2015 event, 2016 is expected to be even larger as athletes will flock to compete in the world renowned and powerful waves of Costa Rica for Individual Medals and the coveted World Team Champion Trophy.

The 2016 ISA World Surfing Games will take place on the back of the decision by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to include Surfing on the Sports Programme for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. With Surfing already having been recommended by Tokyo 2020 for inclusion, the IOC will make the final decision at the IOC Session in Rio this August. This could potentially lead the 2016 ISA World Surfing Games to be the first major World Championship to take place with Surfing as an Olympic sport.

Costa Rica, an emerging Surfing nation bountiful with young, world-class talent, has used Surfing and the hosting of the ISA World Surfing Games to grow the surf-tourism industry and develop their economy. According to Costa Rica’s Institute of Tourism, in 2013 over 200,000 tourists visited Costa Rica for surfing, leading to an economic impact of over USD $300 million.

The key impact of Surfing in Costa Rica and the Central American region as a whole has not gone unnoticed by the Olympic Movement, as it was recently announced that Surfing will be included on the Sports Programme of the 2017 Central American Games in Managua, Nicaragua.